I'll be there. Unless it requires us both getting a PyCon talk accepted. In which case I will demur to more wizened people than we.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > > > It's that time once again: time to start planning for the 2016 Python > Language Summit! This year the summit will be at the Oregon Convention > Center in Portland, Oregon, USA, on May 28th. Sadly, again this year > Michael Foord won't be in attendance. Barry Warsaw and I are running the > summit for the second time. > > The purpose of the event is to disseminate information and spark > conversation among Python core developers. It's our once-a-year chance to > get together and hash out where we're going and what we're doing, > face-to-face. > > We're making two minor changes this year. First: we're going to > experiment with lightning talks! We may have a bunch at the end, or we may > throw some in between longer presentations--not sure yet, we'll see how it > goes. In the grand tradition of lightning talks, they'll be scheduled > exclusively on the day of the summit. We'll provide a whiteboard or other > drawable surface in case you don't show up with slides, and wild > gesticulation isn't enough. > > Second: we're using a Google Form to collect signups. This one form lets > you request an invitation to the summit, and also optionally propose a > talk. Please note: filling out the form does not guarantee you an > invitation. Space is limited; if you're a core developer, your request for > invitation *will* be honored, but we may need to restrict attendance for > others. (Sorry!) Barry and I will email the invitations separately. > > Signups are open as of now, and will remain open for six weeks, closing > April 12th. But it'll only take you a minute to fill out the form, so you > might as well do it right now! Signing up sooner will make our lives > easier, too. > > You'll find a link to the signup form on the summit's official web page, > here: > > https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/langsummit/ > > > One final note. Again this year we're inviting Jake Edge from Linux > Weekly News to attend the summit and provide press coverage. In case you > missed it, Jake did a phenomenal job of covering last year's summit, giving > the reader a very thorough overview of what happened. > > https://lwn.net/Articles/639773/ > > Some attendees were worried last year about sharing private or proprietary > information in front of a reporter. Jake, Barry, and I want to assure you > that it's just not a problem. Jake's not there to embarrass anybody or get > anybody in trouble. He said he'd be happy to work with any attendees about > any discussions you want considered "off the record". > > > We hope to see you at the summit! > > > [BL]arry > > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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